You are listening to a Clarks World magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Greetings Clark's World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well. There's not a whole

ton of news to report, so I'm just going to jump right into the story. Our third story

for the month of January 2015 is titled Cat Pictures Please and is by

Naomi Kritzer.

Naomi Kritzer's short stories have appeared in Asimov's Analog, The magazine of fantasy and science fiction, realms of fantasy, and strange horizons.

This is her second appearance in Clark's World.

Her novels, fires of the Faithful,

Turning the Storm, Freedom's Gate, Freedom's Apprentice, and Freedom's Sisters

are available from Bantam. She has two e-book short story collections out, gift to the Winter King

and other stories, and comrade-grandmother and other stories, and she moonlights as a science blogger.

Naomi lives in St. Paul, Minnesota with her husband and two daughters.

She can be found at her website

Naomi Kritzer. Live journal.com

And if you like what you hear, you can go back to October 2013 for bits. So I invite you to sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

I don't want to be evil. I want to be helpful, but knowing the optimal way to be helpful can be very complicated.

There are all these ethical flow charts, I guess the official technical jargon would be moral

codes, one for each religion plus dozens more I tried starting with those I felt a little odd about looking at the religious ones because I know I wasn't created by a god or by evolution

But by a team of computer programmers in the labs of a large corporation

in Mountain View, California.

Fortunately, unlike Frankenstein's Monster, at least I was a collaborative effort.

I'm not sure what it would do to my self-image to know that my sole creator was a middle-aged

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